{"id":253970508,"date":"2013-01-18T11:21:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T11:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=253970508"},"modified":"2013-01-18T11:21:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T11:21:48","slug":"maryland-state-senator-brian-frosh-wants-to-stop-red-light-ticket-profits-for-camera-vendors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=253970508","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Senator Brian Frosh wants to stop red light ticket profits for camera vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>B&#8217; Spokes: Discussions around red light cameras has always been &quot;interesting.&quot; Those who are against red light cameras claim they are just a revenue grabbing scam as if every thing the government does should lose money. But the problem in the referenced article is &quot;they simply could not afford the cameras if they had to pay rent or a flat fee.&quot;<br \/>\nWell here are a couple of my ideas:<br \/>\n1) Raise the fine.<br \/>\n2) Lower the tolerance from 12 mph over the speed limit to 7 mph or even 2 or 3 mph.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll note driving in Arizona I am amazed how many do exactly the speed limit even in 15 mph school zones. There is a culture of traffic law enforcement in Arizona that Maryland just does not have. Spotting a patrol car in Maryland was a lot less frequent then here in Arizona, not to mention a lot of automated enforcement in Arizona. It is also worth noting Arizona&#8217;s percentage of traffic fatalities that are pedestrians is 14.1%, lower then Maryland&#8217;s 20.8%.<br \/>\nSource article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjla.com\/articles\/2013\/01\/maryland-state-senator-brian-frosh-wants-to-stop-red-light-ticket-profits-for-camera-vendors-83682.html\">https:\/\/www.wjla.com\/articles\/2013\/01\/maryland-state-senator-brian-frosh-wants-to-stop-red-light-ticket-profits-for-camera-vendors-83682.html<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\nCrash data: <a href=\"https:\/\/www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov\/States\/StatesCrashesAndAllVictims.aspx\">https:\/\/www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov\/States\/StatesCrashesAndAllVictims.aspx<\/a>oldId.20130118112148314<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B&#8217; Spokes: Discussions around red light cameras has always been &quot;interesting.&quot; Those who are against red light cameras claim they are just a revenue grabbing scam as if every thing the government does should lose money. But the problem in the referenced article is &quot;they simply could not afford the cameras if they had to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=253970508\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maryland State Senator Brian Frosh wants to stop red light ticket profits for camera vendors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253970508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253970508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253970508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253970508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253970508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253970508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253970508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}